Eurasia

Georgian-Russian relations were not discussed during yesterday’s meeting of foreign ministers of Georgia Grigol Vashadze and Switzerland Micheline Calmy-Rey.

Situation along the Bulgarian –Greek border is so far calm. This is what head of Smolyan Border Police Regional Directorate Commissary Todor Georgiev said. Although all checkpoints work normally and there are no lines of waiting vehicles, Commissary Georgiev warns people to restrict from travelling to Greece. The reason is …

Ukraine votes for a president on Sunday in an election marked by widespread disillusionment among ordinary people but one which will prove crucial to its relations with Russia and its place in Europe.

Greek officials are bracing for a European Union grilling next week over faulty national statistics as the country awaits approval of a national crisis plan on its debt-hit economy. European finance ministers on Tuesday are to tell Athens to clean up its accounting practices and improve the administration of key …

Cypriot President Dimitri Christofias started an official visit to Greece Saturday. Christofias was received by his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias at the Athens Presidential Mansion. Christofias, who is also the leader of the Greek Cypriot community, briefed Papoulias on his talks last week with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat …

NATO reiterated that its doors remain opened for Macedonia, but only after a solution to its name dispute with Athens is reached. “There is not shortcut: we made the decision in Bucharest, that we will start accession talks with Skopje immediately after a mutually acceptable solution is found. I encourage …

Serbia’s foreign minister Vuk Jeremic has ordered the immediate withdrawal of Serbia’s ambassador in Podgorica following Montenegro’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo. Jeremic asked the ambassador to return to Belgrade for consultations. After much discussion about when the right time is to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo, Montenegro’s …

„De fapt, am o hartă a conductelor de gaz cu mine…” (Catherine Ashton, „ministrul de Externe” a Europei, 11.01.09) Precizarea făcută de baroneasa Catherine Ashton, Înaltul reprezentant pentru politica externă şi de securitate a Uniunii Europene, la audierile de la Parlamentul European este semnificativă pentru „harta mentală” a unuia dintre …

On Thursday, during an extraordinary session, the meeting of the Bucharest Senate ratified the Small Cross Border Agreement signed by the Government of Romania and Republic of Moldova Government on 13 November 2009, The Agreement was ratified unanimously with 90 votes “for” the Agreement signed between Romania and Republic of …

The interim president Mihai Ghimpu of Moldova issued a decree on “constituting the Committee for studying and analyzing the totalitarian communist system in the Republic of Moldova”. The decree mentions that, regardless of the fact that in the last two decades “Republic of Moldova recorded progresses in term of building …